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Dec 31, 2007 at 12:01 AMDec 31, 2007 at 12:07 AM

Young girl injured in two-car collisionA 6-year-old girl was in critical condition Sunday after the minivan she was riding in Saturday afternoon collided with another car in the Ocean Isle Beach area.The girl, Kelly Karlinchak, was airlifted to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill after the two-car wreck, which happened about 5:30 p.m.on U.S. 17., authorities said.Trooper David Inman of the N.C. Highway Patrol said Kelly's grandmother, Brenda Quackenbush, 68, and older sister, Katie, 8, also were in the Chrysler van during the wreck and were taken to Seacoast Medical Center.Inman said the girls from Springfield, Va., were visiting their grandparents.Quackenbush was making a left turn into her neighborhood off U.S. 17 near N.C. 904 and failed to yield to a car coming in the opposite direction on the highway, Inman said.That driver, 53-year-old Lonnie Payton, of Wilmington, was the only one in his vehicle and was taken to Brunswick Community Hospital, Inman said.He said charges in the wreck were still pending.- Vicky Eckenrode

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